HACKER Q&A
📣 avin_regmi

Do you think this is a good startup idea?


I'm working on ML model to classify NLP dataset. I'm thinking about online web app where a user would upload CSV file and possible labels. Back end would use ML to classify NLP texts into possible labels. Would you use service like this? Would you pay for it? If yes, how much?


  👤 thirtythree Accepted Answer ✓
It's a good idea but you will run into the following issues:

* Your users won't have enough data

* Your users will have bad data

* Your users will have sensitive data that they can't upload

* Your model would need to be tweaked for best outcomes


👤 crobertsbmw
I would use it. But only if it worked ;) My idea is that I want a model that will basically detect if my kid is whining or not. As a parent, I hate whining, but I also hate monitoring all the time for whining, and would love a robot to tell my kid "you're whining". If I could set up a smart speaker, or a raspberry pi, or a iphone or android app or something to just be listening all the time and tell my kid to use a normal voice, that would be awesome. So I would pay for it, but I wouldn't pay absurd amounts of money. I would want to test it out and see that it works. If it did, I would need an easy way to export the model into iOS/android and python. If I knew it was going to work, and I wasn't going to run into stupid problems (I get a model but I can't figure out how to run it unless I'm inside your web GUI or something for example), then I would pay a couple hundred dollars. If I didn't know if it was going to work or not, then I would probably only pay 20 or 30 dollars.

👤 dennisy
This already exists and all the big cloud platforms have this: https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/automl/docs/quicks...

👤 billconan
It is a useful idea, but to be honest, it might not be a good startup idea.

if you want to raise vc money, the thing they care the most is the potential market size. this sounds like a niche market, so you will have to target big enterprise users, not hobbyists. big enterprise users can easily hire a data scientist team to build models, unless your solution is cheaper and flexible enough to handle their needs well. You will also need to take care of data security. And you need to have sales or you need to do sales.

if this is a bootstrap/indie hacker idea that doesn't need vc money, I still don't think it is a good idea. personally, I won't choose anything that requires a GPU infrastructure , it is too costly, and hence risky.


👤 brogrammer2019
I made the same online web app where a user uploads a CSV file and the back-end in uses ML to classify data and produce insights and charts automatically

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVQOGRPiNJs


👤 135792468
SEOs would use this. Tailor it to SEO and I can get it in front of a lot of them

👤 alexriabtsev
do you know your potential users? ask them but not HN readers :)

👤 pplonski86
is it similar to monkeylearn.com